In the new web apps(essentially a trial of the full thing) there are less designs in powerpoint, also all the four apps lost functionality, why is there no checklist in onenote? Cell merging in excel? Please dont tell me this is final.

Are the web apps worse on your ipad than they are on a laptop/desktop? If so, then MS is just being a bitch. If you root, you can fake your user agent string and then get the full safari version of the web apps.

I do think that the apps are exactly the same on all platforms though.